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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"White students"”.
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"Racism is a misunderstanding": Rhetorically listening to white students' performances of race
<p>This study describes white student talk about race in terms of performance. I show what white talk regarding race looked like in my study, thus inviting the reader to reflect on her own experiences in terms of performativity and common sense. Recognizing student talk as a complex performance …
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White Students in Urban Schools: The Unheard Voice in the Achievement Gap
This study analyzes the academic performance of White students in urban settings, relative to Minority peers, and investigates structural variables that might exacerbate or attenuate differences. The investigation is motivated by and extends qualitative work investigating the experiences of middle …
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Underrepresentation of Non-white Students in a Secondary Gifted Program: The Students’ Experience
Non-white students are underrepresented in gifted education. The purpose of this narrative case study is to describe the stories of non-white students who have graduated from the gifted programs in a Midwest suburban district. This study explored the history of gifted education, an examination of …
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A qualitative study on White students’ understanding of racism at a predominantly White university
… on college campuses are daily occurrences for students of color, with White students usually being the perpetrators (Bonilla-Silva, 2018; Sue et al, 2007). Most studies on racism and perceptions of racism are done from the points of view of students of color (e.g., Harper, 2013; Hurtado & …
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Predicting First-Year Academic Success of African American and White Students at Predominately White Institutions
… are related to first-year academic success of White and African American students at PWIs. The demographic pre-college factors include students& race and gender; the academic factors include ACT composite score and high school GPA; and the social factors include the distance from home, percent …
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School Engagement: Testing the Factorial Validity, Measurement, Structural and Latent Means Invariance between African American and White Students
… factorial structures of school engagement across white and African-American students. And the third objective of the study was to test for invariance of the latent mean structures of school engagement across white and African-American students. In order to accomplish the objectives of the study a …
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A Study in the Influence of the Film, 'The Birth of A Nation,' on the Attitudes of Selected High School White Students Toward Negroes
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The college dropout: The relative contribution of individual, structural, and institutional factors to the withdrawal of male and female, black and white students from 4-year colleges
This study sought to test the synthesis model of dropout which combines three approaches--the individual-oriented approach, the structure-oriented approach, and Tinto's interaction approach. Research questions were addressed as follows: (a) how well does the synthesis model fit the data in terms of …
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An Examination of the Difference in Reading and Mathematics Achievement between Black and White Students in 1st, 3rd, and 5th Grades and its Relationship to Family, School, and Classroom Variables
White students typically score higher on average than Black students on reading and mathematics tests and this gap appears to grow larger as students get older. This study used data from the national Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS) to follow about 7,400 students from 1st to 3rd to 5th …
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The Effect of Ethnic Studies on White Student Populations
… Romero, 2009; Dee & Penner, 2017), however, for White students the effect is less clear. Often there are feelings of guilt, shame, and embarrassment for White students when confronted with the exposure to the individual and systemic oppression of People of Color by White colonialism and much of …
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The Effects of Classroom and Informal-Interactional Diversity on Learning and Democracy Outcomes
… this relationship is more consistent for White students than students of color (Gurin, Dey, Hurtado, & Gurin, 2002). Using the data from a campus-wide diversity survey, the relationship between two types of diversity (informal-interactional and classroom) with learning and democracy …
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Whites' racial affect: understanding the antiracist type
… measured by the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites scale (PCRW; Spanierman & Heppner, 2004), the researchers conducted two focus groups. One group was comprised of White students (n = 5) whose scores reflected the antiracist racial affect type, whereas the other was comprised of White …
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Comparative Achievement of Students in a Freshman Academy with Those Not in a Freshman Academy by Race and Gender in One East Tennessee High School.
… of this study was to compare the achievement of students who participated in a freshman academy program to the achievement of those who participated in the traditional high school curriculum. The researcher used grade point average and composite ACT score as determinants of achievement. The …
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The state of education in Louisiana: trend analyses of student achievement, student matriculation, and student behavior in the accountability era
… and 1960s, and repeated media reports that U.S. students were outscored by students in many other countries on international tests each prompted federal and state legislation aimed to reform public education. Following a presentation of the relative standing of the United States on three …
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Effects of Institutional Factors on the Retention of Graduate Students of Color in Schools of Library and Information Science
… programs as far as enrollment and diversity of students, number and ethnicity of the faculty, program income and expenses, cost of attendance, and scholarship and fellowship aid, in an effort to better understand library programs granting the MLIS degree. The study also endeavored to identify …
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Program Evaluation For Assessing The Effectiveness Of Tracking The Academic Growth And Attendance Of Black Students In Closing The Black And White Achievement Gap
… is a gap between the achievements of Black and White students. The term “achievement gap” has become an accepted label in situations where Black students severely underperform relative to their White counterparts. Many school districts have discretely avoided discussing and or addressing the gap …
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White Representation in Neighborhood Schools: School Funding, Nonprofit Investment, and Academic Outcomes
… dissertation examines the enrollment patterns of White children in traditional U.S. public schools in 2010. I link schools to their attendance boundaries to compare the percentage of White children living in a catchment area to the percentage of White children who attend the local neighborhood …
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